James Perkins
Department Head of Medical Sciences, Health and Management
James Perkins
Department Head of Medical Sciences, Health and Management
Education
BA, Cornell University; MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology; ABD, University of Rochester
Bio
- Joined RIT in 1998
- Sole illustrator or significant contributor to 47 textbooks or reference texts and contributing illustrator to 37 others
- Author or co-author of ten scholarly articles featured in the Journal of Biocommunication, and Scientific American
- Work has been featured in exhibitions across the US and internationally
- Recipient of the British Medical Association Illustrated Book Award and the Award of Excellence, Illustrated Book Award from the Association of Medical Illustrators
- One of seven finalists internationally for the Giliola Gamberini Award from the Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques and the University of Bologna
- Illustrated three book covers and 25 magazine covers, including the Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease, Case Studies in Oncology, HER2 in Oncology, and Advances in Glioma Therapy
- Provided illustrations for 50 peer-reviewed journal articles including Science and Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Biophotonics International, and the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics
- Led initial accreditation process of graduate medical illustration program by the Association of Medical Illustrators
- Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators
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In the News
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July 3, 2024
Medical Illustration Podcast - RIT program faculty interview
PK Visualization's Medical Illustration Podcast talks to Jim Perkins, Department Head of Medical Sciences, Health and Management, along with Glen Hintz and Craig Foster, both associate professors in the School of Art, about the origins of RIT's medical illustration program the accreditation process that made it a Master of Fine Arts program.
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February 20, 2024
Pictures have been teaching doctors medicine for centuries — a medical illustrator explains how
CNN features an essay by James Perkins, director of the graduate medical illustration program.
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April 15, 2021
Co-op spotlight: Student works as illustrator for international medical school
Ashley Mastin '21 (Medical Illustration) spent the fall 2020 semester working for the Center for BioMedical Visualization at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies.
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November 18, 2022
RIT well represented at BioImages 2022
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August 22, 2022
Medical illustration alumni honored
Featured Work
Anatomy, Histology, and Pathology
Student work
Illustrations of anatomy, histology (cellular structure), and pathology. All created in Adobe Photoshop.
Bovine pneumonia (textbook cover)
James Perkins
Cover design for the 4th edition of Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease. The illustration shows the pathology of bovine pneumonia. Created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
De-rotational casting for progressive infantile scoliosis
James Perkins
One of a series of illustrations created for an article in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. It shows one step in the placement of a fiberglass cast on a patient with progressive infantile...